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Re:Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo by thih9 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:47AM (#42946700)
Video of the explanation, at the timestamp showing 8 sprites that look like 9 sprites: https://youtu.be/Ik1vsMM2EuY?t=1509

> the last two Sprites there are multicolored mode; (...) we have a different number of of high res mode Sprites and multicolored Sprites and expanded Sprites; and those high res and multicolor and some horizontally expanded Sprites are all munged together and then the apparent view with animation of the Sprite data as well the Sprite frames (...) gives an apparent view of having nine independent Sprites; but we know it's not, we know that it's a great big blob of eight Sprites all grouped together horizontally (...)

via youtubetranscript: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=Ik1vsMM2EuY

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